Improvement in hoes



GYRIIS W.SALADEE, OF NEWARK, OHIO, AND JOHN S. HALL, OF PITTSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA.

Letters Patent No. 78,611, @lated June 2, 1868.

IMPROVEMENT IN HORS.

TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONGERN:

Be it known that we, CYRUS W. SALADEE, of Newark, Ohio, and JOHN S. HALL, of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and4 useful Improvements in the Construction of Hoes; and we do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference thereon marked. In the drawings- Fgure lis a plan of the blank hoe.

Figure 2 is the hoe coi'nplete, with handle attached.

Figure 3 shows the brace or extra lip.

Our invention consists in an improved mode of manufacturing' hoes, more fully hereinafter described.

In making a. hoe according to our invention, we take a hoe-blade, A, of sheet steel or iron, und with the aid of one or more dies or chisels, cut through it the three lines, a b, e d, and ef, as shown in fig. 1, these lines being cut at the proper place for the handle to be inserted.

A mandrel, of suitable size and shape, corresponding to the size and shape et' the handle to be used, is then forced or struck up from the under side of the blade, so as to throw up and formt-he three lips, w, and y, as shown in iig. 2.- The upper lip, sa, is as long as the length of the opening made in the hoe, while the opposite lips, w and y, are quite narrow.

We then form of east or stamped metal, an angle-brace, I3, nearly corresponding in size and shape to the long lipkx` This brace B is fastened by a rivet to the bladevA, up against the heels of the lip-braces 'w and y, and opposite to the longr lip x.

The square-ended handle, H, is then inserted, and secured by a bolt, passing through holes o, in lip :v and brace B.

By this mode, we are enabled to produce hoes as cheap and strong as by any known Inode.

.Having fully descrihedmur invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The lips w, x, and y, when formed substantially as described, as part of the hoe-blade, in combination with the brace B, substantially as and for the purposes setforth. i i

In testimony that we claim the above, we hereunto set our names.

CYRUS W. SALADEE, JOHN S. HALL.

Witnesses H. McCUNE, J. "K, SPEER. 

